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The Movie:Would you like to know how much of a word loving language geek I am? (Humor me--just say yes). I actually pre-ordered the American Heritage Dictionary when it first came out (and remember, this was in the pre-internet Dark Ages, when you actually had to go to a bookstore to do such things) because I had found out it would contain a suffix with Proto-Indo-European word roots. Comparing how words drifted down and changed in various languages has always fascinated me, and the long and winding road of the history of the English language has been of particular interest. Therefore, The Adventure of English, a 2002 British series hosted by Melvyn Bragg, jumped to the head of my review line when it arrived, and I'm happy to say its four discs did not fail to delight with an unending array of fascinating facts about its subject."Adventure" and "English" may seem ...Read the entire review

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